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<h1 align='center' style='text-align:center'>User Assistance Plan
for Eclipse 3.7</h1> 

<p>By Chris Goldthorpe, IBM. Last revised 09/21/2010 </p>

<h2>Background</h2>

<p>All of the feature requests for Eclipse 3.7 can be found in Bugzilla. Below is a summary of the planned new features
together with a link to the corresponding Bugzilla
entry which contains more information. </p>

<h3>Milestone 2 09/17/2010</h3>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=322669">
[Help] Allow for dynamic filter scopes to be created at runtime</a>
<br/>Allows Eclipse based products to support multiple help system filters
which can depend upon the product configuration.
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<h3>Milestone 3 10/29/2010</h3>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=320670">
[Help] Allow redefinition of Eclipse Help Contents menu item URL</a>
<br/>This is required to allow other help presentations to be supported, 
including Web 2.0 help systems.
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<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=320667">
[Help] Test connection should actually check for validity of Information Center</a>
<br/>Allows users to better diagnose remote help connection problems.
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<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=305895">
[Webapp] Need an indication that a filter has been applied</a>
<br/>Provides users with visual feedback when the help contents are filtered
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<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=291105">
[Help][Search] Help Contents UI enhancements (involving search scope)</a>
<br/>Many users have found the search scope dialog confusing to use. 
These enhancements will improve the usability of this dialog.
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<h3>Milestone 4 12/10/2010</h3>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=320668">
Indicators for Remote UA enablement  </a>
<br/>Enables the help system to indicate the origin ( local or remote server) of a help
 page.
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<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=308907">
[Help] Allow filtering in help view toc, related topics and index views</a>
<br/>In Eclipse 3.6 filtering was implemented in the help web application, but due to time constraints
not in the help view. In Eclipse 3.7 the help view will support the same modes of filtering as the help Webapp.
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<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=322440">
[Intro] Adapt to changes made in platform UI intro support for Eclipse 3.7 and 4.1</a>
<br/>Required for full Intro support in Eclipse 4.1.
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<h3>Milestone 5 01/28/2011</h3>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=320669">
 Allow pre-processesing steps to the Help Search button</a>
<br/>Allows Eclipse based products to improve the quality of search ranking
by modifying the search query.</p>

<p><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=319907">
[Help] Promote main help servlets to public API</a>
<br/>Formalizes the API provided by the servlets in the help system.
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<h3>Milestone 6 (API Freeze) 03/11/2011</h3>
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